Tag Archives: Isola d’Elba

We awoke early and actually left the apartment by 6AM to get the 6:55 ferry out of Rio Marina. We were there for the sunrise. There were only a few cars and people on the ferry. A chocolate croissant was […]

Sunday evening, our last evening on Elba on this trip, we enjoyed another wonderful dinner at Il Chiasso, but this time the mood was bittersweet. We had had a wonderful visit and were sad to be moving on.

The sunshine all day was not expected as the forecast coming into the weekend was for rain throughout. It was nice to experience at least one day of sunshine and bright blue skies on this beautiful island.

Dido, the chef at Il Chiasso, Luciano Casini’s thoroughly charming restaurant in Capoliveri in the island of Elba off of Italy’s Tuscan coast, was kind enough to give my son and I a few cooking lessons, a number of which […]

Luciano Casini is one of a kind. He is charming, he is a bon vivant and he is a man of many pursuits. He could have been the person who inspired the famous Dos Equis commercial series on “the most interesting […]

Fresh sea urchin is one of life’s great treats. I love its creamy coolness and coffee-like flavor. At Il Chiasso, the chef, Dido made delicious spaghetti with sea urchin. Following are photos of what he did.

As a Mediterranean island one would expect the quality of fish to be splendid and it is. One of the dishes I got to enjoy my first night there at Il Chiasso restaurant in Capoliveri was baked rockfish. Rockfish is […]

Sardines have a bad rap in the United States. Perhaps, that is because we rarely get to see or eat top quality supremely fresh sardines. They are one of life’s simple pleasures and a backbone of cucina povera, the inexpensive, […]